1836 NATIONAL ATLAS WEEKLY. Indian Wars, Texas, Cholera, Charles Dickens, Negros & Slaves, &c.

A superb volume of The National Atlas. It was an ambitious periodical, soliciting content [both fiction and non-fiction] from some of the most important authors of the day and lavishly illustrated with original woodcuts. This particular issue contains a few Important and seemingly unrecorded prose works by The Milford Bard, John Lofland. See his fascinating biography here. And also a really interesting review of the first edition of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens from the first edition, published without author in the United States.  The National Atlas, and Tuesday Morning Mail. A Weekly Periodical for the Parlour. July 31, 1836 through January 24, 1837. Philadelphia. Samuel C. Atkinson. 1837.  416pp. Contents include: *The Mexican Republic *Texas *Recollections of the Late Campaign in East Florida by James W Simmons [Series of First-Hand Articles: Mikasuky, Oceola, St. Johns, Indian Generals Jumper, Clinch, Thompson, Scalping, General GAines, battle of the Ouithlachoochy, etc.